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Federal (USV)

Corporal

John R. Webster

(? - 1862)

Home State: Connecticut

Branch of Service: Infantry

Unit: 14th Connecticut Infantry

Before Antietam

From Hartford, he enlisted as a Corporal in Company K, 14th Connecticut Infantry on 5 August 1862.

On the Campaign

He was mortally wounded in action at Antietam on 17 September 1962.

The rest of the War

He was admitted to a US Army hospital in Frederick, MD on 28 September but died there of wounds and disease on 6 (or 10) October 1862.

After the War

He was originally buried in Frederick but was reinterred in the new Antietam National Cemetery in about 1867.

References & notes

Service information from Page1 and the Record.2 Hospital details from the Patient List.3 Burial information from the Antietam Cemetery History.4. His gravesite is on Findagrave.

Death

10/06/1862; Frederick, MD; burial in Antietam National Cemetery, Sharpsburg, MD

Notes

1 Page, Charles D., History of the Fourteenth Regiment, Connecticut Vol. Infantry, Meriden (CT): The Horton Printing Co., 1906, pp. 499 - 502 [AotW citation 9311]

2 State of Connecticut, Adjutant General's Office, and AGs Smith, Camp, and Barbour, and AAG White, Record of Service of Connecticut Men in the Army and Navy of the United States during the War of the Rebellion, Hartford: Press of the Case, Lockwood, and Brainard Company, 1889, pg. 583 [AotW citation 25132]

3 National Museum of Civil War Medicine, and Terry Reimer, Frederick Patient List, Published 2018, first accessed 17 September 2018, <http://www.civilwarmed.org/explore/primary-sources/databases/frederickpatient/>, Source page: patient #4.798 [AotW citation 25133]

4 Antietam National Cemetery, Board of Trustees, History of Antietam National Cemetery, Baltimore: John W. Woods, Steam Printer, 1869 [AotW citation 4331]

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